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Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPowerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political...
Iraq's Sadr: from outlaw to top politician
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPopulist Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr went from a mercurial outlaw wanted dead or alive during the U.S. occupation to a kingmaker in politics...
Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric al-sadr announces hunger strike - state media
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years ago(Reuters) - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is said to have announced a hunger...
Factbox-Who is the Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr?
Reuters via AOL· 11 months agoProtesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday and set it on fire in protest against...
Iran's allies in Iraq are firing at Israel. What if they draw blood?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIran-backed Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in...
Iraqi Shi'ite Sadrist lawmakers resign from parliament
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Lawmakers from the Sadrist bloc in Iraq's parliament resigned on Sunday after...
Iraqi cleric al-Sadr demands closure of U.S. embassy over Israel ties
Reuters via AOL· 7 months agoIraq's Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the Iraqi government and lawmakers on Friday to...
Analysis-Iraqi cleric Sadr flexes muscle with torching of Swedish embassy
Reuters via AOL· 11 months agoLess than a year after declaring he had left Iraqi politics, the unpredictable Shi'ite cleric...
Clashes in Iraq's Basra kill four as crisis flares in oil-rich south
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Clashes among rival Shi'ite Muslim militants in the Iraqi city of Basra have...
Sadr's followers set up for long sit-in at Iraq parliament
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSupporters of Iraqi populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr erected tents and prepared for an open-ended...